TSA To Permit Up To Two Carry On Golf Clubs, A Hockey Stick And Your Favorite Paring Knife, Too

What a relief, you can bring a putter AND a wedge on board. OR your hockey stick or your favorite 2.36 inch knife.

This will make flying so much safer!

Bloomberg's Jeff Plungis reports.

Passengers will also be allowed to board flights with some other items that are currently prohibited, including sticks used to play lacrosse, billiards and hockey, ski poles and as many as two golf clubs, Pistole said.

The changes attracted criticism from labor unions representing flight attendants.

“This policy was designed to make the lives of TSA staff easier, but not make flights safer,” Stacy Martin, president of the Transportation Workers Union local that represents Southwest Airlines Co. flight attendants, said in a statement.

“While we agree that a passenger wielding a small knife or swinging a golf club or hockey stick poses less of a threat to the pilot locked in the cockpit, these are real threats to passengers and flight attendants in the passenger cabin,” Martin said.